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...with anti-aircraft weapons. Thick clouds of black smoke rose from the direction of the airport. The private AfghanIslamicPress in Pakistan said U.S. jets and missiles also attacked the Taliban's southern stronghold of Kandahar for the...

...official said the airport for the southern city of Kandahar, the regime's stronghold, was hit, and the private AfghanIslamicPress reported attacks against a military base outside Kandahar. Michael O'Hanlon, military expert at the Brookings...

...it in dust Sunday, the private Pakistan-based AfghanIslamicPress said. The main target appeared to be military headquarters...he said in a statement distributed by the AfghanIslamicPress. Since last month, the Taliban have banned most...

...Taliban leader, radioed his field commanders Wednesday to assure them that God was on their side, according to the AfghanIslamicPress in Pakistan. ''God will defeat the great infidels,'' Omar reportedly told his followers. In other developments...

...on Friday confirmed a first fatality among bin Laden's close associates in Afghanistan. The Pakistan-based AfghanIslamicPress said Abu Baseer al-Masri was fatally wounded Oct. 11 when a grenade accidentally exploded in his hands. The...

...provinces of Balkh, which includes Mazar-e-Sharif, and Samangan to the east of the city, according to the AfghanIslamicPress. Taliban spokesman Mullah Amir Khan Muttaqi claimed Taliban forces drove back an opposition attack in the area...

...Peshawar. ''The Taliban have gone out of their minds. It's a great loss.'' In a statement about Haq to the AfghanIslamicPress, Taliban intelligence chief Mullah Qari Ahmedullah warned that the Islamic militia maintains a ''very effective...

...bombing,'' he said. The private Pakistan-based AfghanIslamicPress, citing Taliban officials, said nine people had...espionage and other charges within a few days, the AfghanIslamicPress said Saturday. Peyrard, a journalist for Paris...

...the opposition's fortunes. Echoing Rumsfeld's comments about enclaves of resistance, the Pakistan-based AfghanIslamicPress said pro-Taliban fighters were still holding out in the city -- including about 100 armed Pakistanis and Arabs...

...their Taliban-mandated beards shaved, and music -- banned by the Taliban -- could be heard from stores, the AfghanIslamicPress reported. Opposition spokesman Ashraf Nadeem said about half the city's women had discarded the all-covering...